China Mobile Ltd. operates as an investment holding company, which through its subsidiaries provides mobile telecommunications and related services. The company offers mobile telecommunications services using the TD-SCDMA standard and operates 3G business based on an Internet protocol based core mobile telecommunications network that is shared by 2G and 3G. The company operates its business through two divisions: Voice Business and Data Business. The Voice Business division provides local calls, domestic long distance calls, international long distance calls, intra-provincial roaming, inter-provincial roaming, international roaming and voice value-added services. Its voice value-added services mainly include caller identity display, caller restrictions, call waiting, call forwarding, call holding, voice mail, conference calls and other services. The Data Business division provides short message and multimedia message services, wireless data traffic business and applications and information services. This division's applications and information services provide wireless music, mobile reading, mobile video, mobile mailbox, mobile paper, mobile gaming, mobile payment, wallet, mobile TV and location-based services. It also offers mobile telecommunications services principally using the global system for mobile communications, which intends to use its GSM network to primarily carry voice usage and certain data traffic from mobile phones. The company was founded on September 3, 1997 and is headquartered in Hong Kong. More »